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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In appointing an ambassador, it is customary for the State Department to select a candidate who is persona grata to the government of the country concerned. When, last week, the U. S. Senate confirmed the appointment of Manhattan's Harry Frank Guggenheim as Ambassador to Cuba, the question of...
The situation which had held up Mr. Guggenheim's confirmation while Secretary of State Stimson hurriedly consulted with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee resulted partly from an anti-Machado resolution received by the Senate and partly from a series of suits for damages brought against the Cuban government by...
From this idleness aviation rescued him. Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University was trying to raise money for an aviation course. He asked Mr. Guggenheim to write a money-getting letter. Mr. Guggenheim wrote the letter, showed it to his father for any suggestions that might improve it...
Last summer at Camp Morgan (Y. M. C. A.), near Washington, N. H., the old sanitation unit suddenly became a menacing plague spot. Some 100 boys at the camp were threatened with infection. What was to be done? An ingenious, tinkering counsellor, one Gordon Russell Whittum of Worcester, Mass., hurriedly...
Just before dawn, one morning a fortnight ago, all seemed quiet on the University of Illinois' midwestern front. But the rambling campus slept fitfully, for later in the day undergraduates were to elect sophomore, junior, senior class officers. Not for some time had the political position of the fraternity...